Trump defied the laws of politics. Now he’s trying to break the laws of economic gravity. – CNN
Trump defied the laws of politics. Now he’s trying to break the laws of economic gravity. CNN
President Donald Trump came to office breaking the laws of US politics, knocking over Democrats’ blue wall in the Rust Belt and remaking the GOP in his own nationalist image. He basically spent 2016 saying there was a different political reality than the one politicians and most voters knew, and it turned out he had a point. There’s a similar alternate reality emerging where it comes to the President’s use of tariffs, first against an economic rival — China — and then against our closest trading partner — Mexico — as well as potentially against an ally like Australia, according to The N…